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Admin access User access

I have a value for the user as admin, with a value of 1 or 0. What is the best way to go about making it so it will check this value on login and then direct accordingly. I should note that I am using InertiaJS ReactJS.

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Randy_Johnson's avatar

Why does Laravel keep changing stuff. I mean, if it ain't broke don't fix it right.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Http\Requests\Auth\LoginRequest;
use App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider;
use Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use Inertia\Inertia;
use Inertia\Response;
use App\Models\User;

class AuthenticatedSessionController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display the login view.
     */
    public function create(): Response
    {
        return Inertia::render('Auth/Login', [
            'canResetPassword' => Route::has('password.request'),
            'status' => session('status'),
        ]);
    }

    /**
     * Handle an incoming authentication request.
     */
    public function store(LoginRequest $request): RedirectResponse
    {
        $request->authenticate();

        $request->session()->regenerate();

        $admin = User::where('email', $request->email)->pluck('admin')->first();

        if($admin == 1) {
            return redirect('/admin/dashboard');
        } else {
            return redirect('/user/dashboard');
        }
    }

    /**
     * Destroy an authenticated session.
     */
    public function destroy(Request $request): RedirectResponse
    {
        Auth::guard('web')->logout();

        $request->session()->invalidate();

        $request->session()->regenerateToken();

        return redirect('/');
    }
}

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